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Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
THANKSGIVING DAY.
It's General Observance tn Omaha
.' Last Thursday.
Omaha People Had 60 He
, Thank rul For

Thanksgiving day has come and gone In lss),
on the 2Hth day of December, the Pilgrim
Fathers landed in America. and Immediately
set aside u day to be observed in general
Thanksgiving and fasting. Thanksgiving day
has since become a general holiday in the United
states, 1t being appointed first by the president
by proclamation, after which the governors of
the several states also issue their proclamation
to their own constituency. The people of Ne.
during the year have been plenty and fruitful;
no epidemic has devastated the state, and no
serious accidents have marrcd the record of tho
year. Among the many people of Omaha none
had more cause To be thankful on that day than
the family OF Mr.. Wigs, residing at the corner
of Twenty-eighth and Burdcttc streets. Last
July Blanche, II little hve.year.old daughter OF
She recovered from the disease. but In few
days afDer an afscess formed on her neck under
the right ear. chronic abscess that was contin.
ualy discharging ptIs. Chronic abscess appears
under various designations. such as cold, scro
fulous or tuberculous absccss. 1t Is one that Is
slow in its progress. Mr.. Wigs, in talking to
the reporter about the case. said: 'The abcess
in this case was the result of the scarlet fever,
chronic abcess often following such low forms
at night. often saturatinK the bandages we
would put on 1t. We doctOred for 1t from July
until September. and 1t was continually grow
ing worse, and we became seriously alarmed. l
then noticed the advertisements OF Drs Mccoy
and Henry. and told my wife she had better
take Blanche and go see them. She did and in
one month they had her well rs you see there is
be gone also" MIR. Wigs called To bright and
pretty little girl who was playing with her little
brother and showed the reporter that her neck
was AS we'll rs ever II was,
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
viii They Dare?

There has been within q few days
renewal OF rumors from Washington
about reading Mr.. Randall out of the
party and humiliating him if he will
not corporate to secure the passage of
Il tariff bill satisfactory to the ma jority
OF the democrats in congress. Certain
journals, also, are insisting that in the
organization Of the house it will be the
duty of the speaker to put no one not in
sympathy with the revenue policy of
the administration in position to en-
danger the success Of that policy. Dem
ocratic councils are said to be substanti
ally unanimous in the opinion that the
wings of the Pennsylvania congressman
must be clipped.
Will the opponents of Randall dare
attempt this? The parties in the
next house of representatives
will stand thus: Democrats 1853,
republicans 1853, independents 4. The
actual democratic majority is thus only
eleven. In the last congress the follow
ing OF Randall against the motion to
take up the Morrison bill was twenty
uNc' nc VIII very ihciy nave tudt
| number with him in the coming con-
grcss, and is said to count upon thirty.
Less than half this number will enable
him to exercise the veto power as to any
action upon which the majority of the
party in the house may determine. II
ostracised and placed in the position OF
an enemy there cannot be the slightest
doubt that he would use this power. II
is entirely plain that the democratic
| party in the house can carry out nc
policy rs to the tariff without the assent
at least, of the faction of which Randall il
the head Indeed, it cannot organize the
| house without the assent and assistance Of
this faction. Unless, therefore, the ma
iority of the party wish to make ship
wreck of their administration of the
house at the very outset of this import
ant congress they cannot adopt any
policy the purpose OF which will be Il
put an indignity upon Mr.. Randall
They have not votes enough TO do it.
!" What Mr.. Randall intends doing cal
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THE Chicago board of trade has been
quite prominent in collecting evidence
upon which to indict bucket shop propri-
etors. The latter class now propose to
retaliate by an attempt to indict the
board for running bucket shop under
the guise of a board Of trade stock ex-
change. 1t would be just as consistent
for the proprietor Of faro bank to OBJ
ject to Sunday services on moral
grounds as for bucket shop man to say
that legitimate board of trade re-
sembled his thieving business.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

TIE commissioner of Indian affairs
suggests in his report, referring to tho
Indian territory. that the wild tribes
west of the ninetyeighth meridian be
removed cast of that line and the west
crn part of the territory be given up to
the whites. He says the vast surplus
age of land in the territory, much of it
not surpassed in fertility and versatility
of production, which can never be
utilized by the Indians now within its
borders nor by their descendants, must
sooner or later be disposed of by con-
gress some way or other, and he believes
the course he recommends will be just
to the Indians and protect them from
irruptions. The Indian territory con-
tains "a 222 square miles, an area nearly
as large as tho six New England
states, and the total number of
Indians in it is only 10000, giving
$40 acres to every individual of the pop
ulation, or 2,600 acres for every family
of five persons. 1t is clear that large
part of this great territory must con-
tinuc valuelcss so long as the Indians
alone remain in full possession, and
since the plan OF the commissioner
would involve the removal of only 1900
Indians from the portion of the terri
tory west of the eninety-eighth meridian,
| the suggestion is worthy of serious con-
| sideration by congress. Every year the
pressure of white population on the In
dian territory is increasing, and it is
manifestly only question of time when
the government will no longer be able
to restrain it. 1t might be we'll to an
ticipate by throwing Il portion of the
| territory now sparsely populated by In.
dians open to white settlement.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
THE St. Louis l;teSe-Democrat wants

THE st. Louis Gtebe-Democrat wants
to know if it ism t ,'.aBout time to change
the ancient policy of allowing mileage
to congressman at the rate OF 70 cents
per mile, when railroad fare is not one
fourth as much as that and when, as a
matter of fact. most of them do their
travelling on free passes?" 1t undoubt-
edly is. And it might be suggested that
there are several ancient policies con-
corning congressman in need OF radical
changes. Yet, after all, a congressman
should receive more than 5000 year
for distributing garden seeds and pub
docs to his beloved constituents.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THE citizens of Omaha have raised
over $50 600 for the purpose of securing
the national republican convention.
Among the candidates for this prize
Omaha now stands as good chance as
any. The city is as large as Chicago
was when that city had its first national
convention in 1860. Omaha is the
tenter of the continent, and can accom-
lnodate all who attend the convention.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
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Not Out OF Politics.

The railroads are not entirely out of
politics in the state of Kansas. AT least
we should judge so from the following
suggestive dispatch from the Kansas
capital: ,t
The Rock Island people are supporting
Hon. A. w. Smith for governor and will
probably be aided by the Santa Fe people.
Why should the Rock Island railroad
have any interest in Mr.. Smith, or what
object has the Santa Fe in pool
ing with the Rock Island in his favor?
A corporation cannot vote, and when it
happens to be a railroad its moral inilu-
ence would certainly have but little. if
any, weight with the rank and file of
Kansas voters.
The citizens of Kansas as those
of all other western states have
endeavored for years to keep railroads
out of politics. But railroad managers
persist in controlling conventions and
legislatures. We do not know anything
about Mr.. Smith, except that he is a
railroad candidate, and that fact ought
to defeat his nomination. A man whose
backing comes from the railway mana
gers will be an unsafe executive for the
people. Whenever the railroad is a
factor in politics our boasted 'free bal
lot" becomes u bare-faced sham. Quite
apart from the pressure which railroads
exert through their armies of employees
their influence Is almost irresistible
with dependent patrons and commune
ties. AS long rs corporate monopolies
can dictate our governors, senators and.
congressman and local Legislators, popu.
lar self-govcrnment is a mere delusion
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

Is any systematic effort being made
! TO invite manufacturing Industries to
Omaha, and to make known the claims
OF this city as an eligible point for such
industriesy II not such an effort should
be inaugurated by the board of trade at
once and vigorously pursued. "A great
deal OF useful work in this way ought to
be done during the next three months.
There are a great many manufacturing
enterprises now unfavorably located
chat could be brought to Omaha If
psoper Inducements were offered.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JOttinSs,

Corn will pan out fifty bushels to the
acre in Wayne county.
G.. S. Meyerson and A. G. Buchanan,
two experienced pork-packcrs from
Omaha, have leased the new packing
house in Fremont.
The educators of McCook inaugurated
school banking system year ago. the
object being to show by practice the
benefit of saving the pennies. The de-
posits now amount to $3.50 and the chill
dren as we'll as The managers consider
the plan a success.
"One OF the greatest changes wrought
in this section of the state" says the
Pierce County Cali, ''was the change in
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THE citizens of Rapid City, Oak,
have sent II representative to Washing
ton to secure, if possible, the opening to
settlers of the Sioux reservation. The
terms on which it is proposed to do this
are to be honorable and beneficial to
the Indians and settlers alike" If II
modern treaty is carried out on that
basis, we shall have a rather novel ele-
lnent in our perennial Indian problem
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

method in the work there has been a
great deal of imposition practiced, while
many worthy poor who have not
urged their claims have suffered
neglect. What Is required is an organ
ization having central office and the
means of investigating applications for
aid as well as seeking out those requir-
ing assistance. This the board OF char
tiles will provide, and in this most ne
eessary and commendable work it
should receive generous support.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

Mr.. BECHEL assures the reporter OF
the Herald that there was no intention
on his part to snub the police commits
sion in refusing to allow the reading of
their letter in open council. We are
glad to know that Mr.. Bechel sees the
folly of further continuance of the dis
graceful controversy.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

ATClIIsON is in about the same fix as
Omaha with regard to Missouri river
bridge accommodations. The existing
bridge monopoly has had its own way
for years, and the company which pro-
cured n charter from congress for
rival railroad and wagon bridge has up
to this time failed to redeem its prom
ises. The latest scheme is to transfer
the bridge charter to the Rock Island
road
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

A CORoNER's jury recently censurcd
the New York Central road for careless
ness in killing one of its employees.
These juries should not be so reckless
In hurting the feelings OF sensitive rail-
road corporations. The idea of censur-
jng company for small thing like
thatt
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THE american party" now numbers
about ten thousand in New York state.
Reducing this to a vulgar fraction of
the whole population, they represent
one sx-thousandth of the voters of the
Empire state.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

A MEMBER Of the Colombian legation
at Washington says the Panama canal
has cost over one hundred and fifty
millions up to date. OF that sum S2S,-
100000 have been expended in making
the excavations. The rest has been
consumed in caring for the sick, paying
the officials connected with the scheme,
and other sundries. The rottenness of
things in Denmark was not circum-
stance to De Lesseps' restoring project.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THE organization OF the board Of char
tiles will assure systematic charitable
work in Omaha, of which there is great
need. The dispensation of charity in
this city through existing Organiza-
tons has been liberal. but for want OF
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THE district attorney of New York City
is trying to indict Gould and Sage"
Those who know these patriots best. will
naturally wonder what they have done,
and if they are not the victims of some
wicked conspiracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

WHEN Atlanta had no license several
hundred places sold whisky. There
was no regulation. Under the law rati-
fed Saturday, there will be fewer places
where whisky is sold, and each of them
will be under STRICT surveillance.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

THERE was very material reduction
In the total exchanges of the clearing
house banks last week as compared with
the previous week, but Omaha's state
ment is gratifying in amount and in the
percentage of increase over the corre-
spending week of last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

IOWA butchers along the Mississippi
are excited over a movement Of Armour
70 obtain control over the beef trade in
that region. They consider an attack
Oh their two hundred per cent profits
an atrOcious outrage
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

J. M. Day, the private who deserted from
Fort Omaha in October, was captured by
United States Marshal Grcnclla yesterday
afternoon and returned to the barracks.
Day is young man and gave as his reason
for his dishonorable action that he was tired
of the service. He will be severely punished.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

The council keeps on ordering addi-
tional lamp posts and fire hydrants re-
gardless of the fact that there is already
an overlap in the general fund and the
fire hydrant expenses are in excess OF
all previous estimates. The most pc
culiar feature of its reckless financier-
ing is the fact that there has been no
settlement of the city's gas bills for
fully two years. The gas company
piling up from month to month. There
is evidently some design to let these
claims accumulate until they aggregate
$6O, 600 or $40, 900 and finally settle them
by an issue of funding bonds.
In that event the gas company will
not only include in its bill thousands of
dollars more than the city is legiti-
mately liable for under strict construc-
tion of its contract, but also interest on
the entire claim from the date when
each months gas bin was presented.
The same reckless style of fnancier-
ing is manifest in the letting OF grading
contracts. which we are informed have
created an enormous overlap. The
question is where will we land if this
disregard of charter limitations is not
checked? 1t strikes US that it is high
time for the council to call u halt and
take an inventory of the city's available
assets. A settlement should be made
with the gas and water company and Or
ders for additional gas lamps and hy-
drants should be restricted within the
means at the disposal of the council to
pay for them from month to month.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

JAKE SHARP, the accomplished bood-
lcr OF New York, will perhaps have his
case settled to-day. The country is
getting very tired of Mr.. Sharp's case.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
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Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

CARTER HARRISON is in Japan. He
will return to Chicago an expert iugglcr
in other things than politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

The following statement regarding Drs. Nc
Coy and Henry is made upon good authority:
"Since these eminent physicians hare been IN tho
Tsst theU hare treated and cured oper sin thous
and cases of cdtdrrh and chronic throat aud hing
troubles, and OF these cases ~ per cent had been
declared and pronounced uictuubie."
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
WyOnlinr.

Wyoming.
The State Line stock company, cap
ital 10000, has been organized at Rock
Springs.
A gang of 200 men are cutting ties
for the Northwestern railroad near
Laramie peak, twenty-five miles from
Douglas.
The Wyoming Central Oil and Pipe
Line company, capital $5.OOO,OOO, has
been Incorporated, with headquarters at
Rawllns. The incorporators are Henry
Thurman, George Marshall, w. H..
Mead. Earnest Schucman, j. w. Golf +,
Edward Biewett, L. B. Sheppard, e. IL.
Airis and T.. Il. Horn, all from Fremont,
Neb.
Mr.. A. Montmorency, the Burlington S
agent at Cheyenne, is whooping up the
popular route and plugging its praises
into willing ears. He announces that
freight trans will be running to Chey-
enne December II, but owing to the
lack of motive power the passenger
train service would be. delayed until
January l. The Burlington has built
$50 miles of railroad this year, and it
has been impossible to get its orders for
| locomotives filled"
Not far from Laramie, in plain sight,
through moderately good pair of field
| glasses, from the tower of the univer-
sity, are springs of pure water bubbling
| up from bed OF magnetism sandstone.
| The water sparkles over golden sands
the washing of glacial gravel seeking
the sunlight through solid rock. The
chroncler of the find AYERS that the
deposits of centuries here revealed
mock Monte Cristo's fabulous wealth.
| This is only u sample of the daily wOn-
ders unearthed by the Boomerang.
The range lying between the Sweet
water and Snake rivers is in much better
| condition to stand hard winter than
for many years. Grass is more abundant
and better cured, but the eencrOachments
| of the immense sheep herds through
this district is regarded with much ieal-
ousy by the cattlcmen. The losses at
tendant upon last season, through cold
weather and lack. of winter range, bid
fair to be somewhat recovered during
the next two years, though it is gen.
| orally conceded that different plan
must be adopted for wintering the cattle
than has been pursued in the past.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29

the market for stock. A little over \
year ago all the stock from this county
was shipped to Chicago. now IL all goes
to Omaha, not carload going TO Chi
cago for the last three months. 1t is a
great change and a great thing for this
part Of the country"
The determination of Hastings To out
run Lincoln in the race for second place
is thus tersely set forth by the Gazette
Journal: I'm spite of all the rage and
bluster of Lincoln, Hastings has the
brighter prospects of the two. The
Queen CITY is destined to become the
second city in the state inside of ten
wears. Licnoln will always make nice
quiet city where the state can lodge its
criminals and where the legislature can
retire to comparative seclusion every
two years, but It cannot expect to hold
its supremacy us second city of Nebraska
much longer"
Tho remntat;op of On,b, os a ,,w.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-29
Iowa Items.

Blackleg is thinning the cattle herds
near Spirit Lake.
2There are 2,4lS children enrolled in
the public schools of Sioux City.
The new opera house in Sioux City
has been dubbed the peavey Grand" p"
The state boasts of 953 women who
own farms and only eighteen of them
are mortgaged.
Track-laying on the Cherokee and
Dakota line is progressing at the rate
of two miles per day.
1t is now understood that the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy will extend its
Keolull and st. Louis line to Iowa City
via Washington.
A struggling editor in Carroll has
tumbled on to a fortune of Sl2 800 by the
demise of a relative in Germany. Such
kindly remembrance mitigates the
stings of death.
A large number of citizens have been
subp9nad before the grand jury at
Burlington to give evidence against the
saloons of that place, and it is expected
that many dealers in liquor will be in.
dicted.
The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-19

but in all former instances the rcign of the sandwich man was of brief dura- ton. What his present term of office may be, now that a new state of things has set in. is a question yet to be solved. It used to be alleged that he exercised strange influence on horses, and whichever an ani- nal took fright, the coachman declared that it had caught sight of an ambulat- ing poster. This may in a measure account for the transformation the sandwich-man has undergone in his passage across the channel, for in Paris he is to be seen occasionally girt round with an elegant glass case like crino- line. The innovation is altogether disagreement of the handsome boulevards. And so are those other walking advertisements, who, in the place of boards, wear on their back coat announcements embroidered in yellow letters on broad backs espe- cially selected for this humiliating pur- pose. The French are daily becoming more enterprising in their methods ot advertising, but persons who remember what a disagreeable sight such exhibitions used to be in the London thoroughfares would certainly be sorry to find the number of these poor fellows increase in the streets of Paris. It shocks what every true-born Parisian poetically calls ''the harmony of the public way"
 There are five or six offices open in Paris where sandwich-men are re- cruited. They receive three or four francs day, and walk up and down given beat for eleven consecutive hours. "grooms" being posted along the way to keep sharp lookout over them. The more ingenious among them contrive new modes of advertise ment, which the managers of these offices adopt. We may instance the sandwich-man, who, being in- side box painted outside to simulate | house, would now and then open small window and look out, exhibiting a nose as red as that of George Angus tus Sala; while the advertisement above was for water recommended by all the Paris doctors to keep up the freshness of the skin. Another one went about with a board on which was inscribed the words: Don't read what is be- hind;" and of course every body did turn to read, the ladies among the rest. Still, however farcical as this may seem, the French are deeply moved at the sight of the poor wight who takes so much trouble to find reader.- PariS Cor. Chicago Inter- Ocean.